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finished the first part but got sort of sad so there is a chance i might not finish it lol need a breather from sad novels

bought from SF public library book sale w/ Ivy!

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wowwwww

i think i bought this at the library book sale a while back and eeee reading this now is honestly stomach curdling because they described and forecasted trends/patterns accurately but i wonder if the editors and authors imagined how bad things would get by this point

i gotta chill on the currently reading and actually finish some of them but this is a fun one so far hehehe

hmmm it’s changing shape compared to what i thought it would be but it’s really interestingly pieced together

my heart feels like it’s being squeezed and squeezed and squeezed and squeezed

love it, the style of content was ~23% of my undergrad program

the number of books in the currently reading list is getting scary and laughable

why is this taking me an eternity

nomi 5 star review and melo glowing review got me curious :0

oh lily 🫂

what a love letter to the city! it’s been fun to map out the streets in my head, was literally at washington sq park last week

bawled my eyes out will resume and tackle last stretch after like a 24 hr break

excited to see how it shapes up :-)

in minimal words, i feel a sense of kinship w him

wow she’s so gifted at casting an atmosphere over her work + describing sensations

ended up reading more and made it thru some of part ii. i think a fine balance was so detailed each moment we experience w the characters felt excruciatingly long where here it moves so quickly that i feel like we keep losing time w the characters. the pacing is interesting, this is a much faster read than i initially thought it would be :0

i can’t help but compare this to my reading experience for a fine balance. it has a similar short-chapter continuous storytelling vibe but looking forward to seeing more of its unique strengths and more of a glimpse into mjl’s writing abt zainichi korean community across the different generations

listened the audiobook for this on my drive to campus yesterday not knowing anything about it beyond what she said in her nobel speech and wish i had seen the trigger warnings 😭 hate the husband so much it’s visceral

second book i’m reading abt a harvard student and both protagonists were so tonally similar.. not sure what’s afoot @ hvard to explain this.

exhales

let this be the first and only book of the year that i should’ve just dnf’d 😐 too far in and wanna know who did it atp but like bruh i should’ve dnf’d like 20% of the way in